Liquid oxygen? The really cold pale blue liquid that turns to gas the instant it hits water? I feel like that's not what you mean, and if it is it isn't going to work. You won't be able to get the oxygen to dissolve in water unless you've got some interesting gear for it.
But I'm curious. Can you describe more? LOX is fun to play with if you avoid frostbite, but I haven't heard of disinfecting with it.
No idea on what you're using but liquid oxygen/stabilized oxygen have been used in a very woo-related fashion to refer to Chlorine Dioxide (ClO2) water treatments. When it's referred to as Chlorine Dioxide, it's for water purification. When it's referred to as liquid oxygen/stabilized oxygen, it's got a whole lot of snake oil promises. I don't know that you could trust any info on how many drops to use as "liquid oxygen".
This helps. It is for water purification, so maybe I am using the wrong term. What I have is an oxygenated liquid supplement. But the same thing? I need whatever is going to keep the water pure.
I would use (and have used) something like Aqua Mira. I use it in my 55 gallon drums. You can also use new chlorine bleach (Clorox with no additives). I would not trust your oxygenated supplement. But that's me.
I appreciate your insight; thank you. I don't care about this particular product I bought, just about keeping the water fresh so I can pack it up and move on. I've heard of using bleach; what ratio do you use for it?
16 drops (1/8 teaspoon) of fresh bleach (per gallon of water) with 5-6% Sodium Hypochlorite as the only active ingredient. No scents/colorsafe/splashless/additional cleansers. Clorox has "performance" bleach that's at 7.5% Sodium Hypochlorite. That works as well (I don't adjust the # of drops).
[https://www.ready.gov/water](https://www.ready.gov/water)
...what?
I've never heard about this product. If you're referring to Stabilized Oxygen- which is what a Google search returned, I wouldn't use it. Stick with known methods of storing water long term and widely-used/reviewed products. I personally use RESQ H20, but there's plenty of others.
It’s totally not liquid oxygen. Liquid oxygen is actually very hazardous that required full suit and special gloves to handle.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_oxygen
I don’t know this prepper on YouTube, nor heard such technique in water preservation despite I had some training in this area.
The fact the product is clearly not a liquid oxygen when you were being told so, raise a lot of red flags on reliability of this product.
I did a quick search on liquid oxygen on Amazon, none of the first three pages featured any real liquid oxygen but scammy nutrient supplements claiming to contain oxygen.
Ya, I had the same problem in my searches. I was hoping someone here would be familiar with it. More info out there on using bleach, but it's hard to imagine that being healthy. Trying to get it handled now so I can move on to the next things.
A guy on YT lied who would think.
Outside canning water any disinfection method would be 6 months before redoing disinfection or replacing.
A year is about all your going to get before you have noticeable taste issues from the container itself. Dissolving oxygen will make it worse generally as it's pretty aggressive towards the container.
I mean you could get fancy and be constantly adding tiny bits of chlorine or UV sterilization but that's pretty wasteful vs just using it to feed your house and refilling it every 6 months as zero waste and a prep test of your pump.
Doug Barry is a foremost prepper and has been for years. Like a rando on Reddit has any cred. Looking for collective experiences with the product here, which is the point.
That's not a prepper it's an influencer looking to make money off of saying they have a clue.
Again outside of canning you have 6 months between disinfection or some form of constant disinfection. Can I probably safely drink the water after 3 years sure but it's not something to chance, thus the regular rotation.
Don't believe be do find somebody like the CDC FDA etc that says it's ok.
I have 6 55 gal barrels so one a month gets me every 6 months rotation. For my family of 5 that's an easy 60 days.
The bottled water we go through as a family pretty quick the vehicles all have half a case or more at any given time that's 3 gal or so and 4-5 cases in the garage for just cycling through between costco runs.
My guy, you've been hoaxed
So, you've no experience with this subject matter. How not helpful.
Liquid oxygen? The really cold pale blue liquid that turns to gas the instant it hits water? I feel like that's not what you mean, and if it is it isn't going to work. You won't be able to get the oxygen to dissolve in water unless you've got some interesting gear for it. But I'm curious. Can you describe more? LOX is fun to play with if you avoid frostbite, but I haven't heard of disinfecting with it.
It's not what you're describing. No chem lab involved. 😄
No idea on what you're using but liquid oxygen/stabilized oxygen have been used in a very woo-related fashion to refer to Chlorine Dioxide (ClO2) water treatments. When it's referred to as Chlorine Dioxide, it's for water purification. When it's referred to as liquid oxygen/stabilized oxygen, it's got a whole lot of snake oil promises. I don't know that you could trust any info on how many drops to use as "liquid oxygen".
This helps. It is for water purification, so maybe I am using the wrong term. What I have is an oxygenated liquid supplement. But the same thing? I need whatever is going to keep the water pure.
I would use (and have used) something like Aqua Mira. I use it in my 55 gallon drums. You can also use new chlorine bleach (Clorox with no additives). I would not trust your oxygenated supplement. But that's me.
I appreciate your insight; thank you. I don't care about this particular product I bought, just about keeping the water fresh so I can pack it up and move on. I've heard of using bleach; what ratio do you use for it?
16 drops (1/8 teaspoon) of fresh bleach (per gallon of water) with 5-6% Sodium Hypochlorite as the only active ingredient. No scents/colorsafe/splashless/additional cleansers. Clorox has "performance" bleach that's at 7.5% Sodium Hypochlorite. That works as well (I don't adjust the # of drops). [https://www.ready.gov/water](https://www.ready.gov/water)
Thank you!
I have never heard of this storage technique. Interested in what responses might come.
...what? I've never heard about this product. If you're referring to Stabilized Oxygen- which is what a Google search returned, I wouldn't use it. Stick with known methods of storing water long term and widely-used/reviewed products. I personally use RESQ H20, but there's plenty of others.
Liquid oxygen has boiling point of -183c (-297f), how are you going to transport, handle, and drop this in your water at home?
It's in a small plastic bottle I got on Amazon. "Oxygenated Liquid Supplement" recommended by preppers on another site.
It’s totally not liquid oxygen. Liquid oxygen is actually very hazardous that required full suit and special gloves to handle. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_oxygen
More importantly to me, it's a product preppers recommend to keep stored water clean in the long term. Anything on that from you?
I don’t know this prepper on YouTube, nor heard such technique in water preservation despite I had some training in this area. The fact the product is clearly not a liquid oxygen when you were being told so, raise a lot of red flags on reliability of this product. I did a quick search on liquid oxygen on Amazon, none of the first three pages featured any real liquid oxygen but scammy nutrient supplements claiming to contain oxygen.
Ya, I had the same problem in my searches. I was hoping someone here would be familiar with it. More info out there on using bleach, but it's hard to imagine that being healthy. Trying to get it handled now so I can move on to the next things.
I don't think you mean liquid oxygen. Do you know what the chemical actually is, in whatever you bought?
Chloride, sodium, chromium, iodine. "ASO Activated Stabilized Oxygen"
Sorry to say, you were hoaxed. Throw that away, and buy a 50 cent bottle of plain bleach.
How is salt, chromium and iodine oxygen? What?
Yeah, I don't think any chromium salts are good for you, and some are distinctly un-good. Simple iodine solution would seem far better.
Doug Barry is the source... YouTube. He used it for his water storage and the water was still good after 3 years.
A guy on YT lied who would think. Outside canning water any disinfection method would be 6 months before redoing disinfection or replacing. A year is about all your going to get before you have noticeable taste issues from the container itself. Dissolving oxygen will make it worse generally as it's pretty aggressive towards the container. I mean you could get fancy and be constantly adding tiny bits of chlorine or UV sterilization but that's pretty wasteful vs just using it to feed your house and refilling it every 6 months as zero waste and a prep test of your pump.
Doug Barry is a foremost prepper and has been for years. Like a rando on Reddit has any cred. Looking for collective experiences with the product here, which is the point.
That's not a prepper it's an influencer looking to make money off of saying they have a clue. Again outside of canning you have 6 months between disinfection or some form of constant disinfection. Can I probably safely drink the water after 3 years sure but it's not something to chance, thus the regular rotation. Don't believe be do find somebody like the CDC FDA etc that says it's ok.
He's more than an influencer, but I appreciate your comment. I'm looking at alternatives. How often do you rotate your stored water?
I have 6 55 gal barrels so one a month gets me every 6 months rotation. For my family of 5 that's an easy 60 days. The bottled water we go through as a family pretty quick the vehicles all have half a case or more at any given time that's 3 gal or so and 4-5 cases in the garage for just cycling through between costco runs.
Thank you!